A police report indicates that an unarmed young father of two begged for his life before being shot dead by a police officer in Mesa, Arizona.Ā
The newly-released report indicates that Shaver told officers āplease donāt shoot me,ā shortly before he was indeed shot five times and killed.
Shaver was 26 years old, and had wife and two daughters.Ā
Philip Brailsford, a former officer for in the Mesa Police Department, has been charged with second-degree murder
On the night of Jan. 18, police were called to a hotel on reports of a suspect pointing a rifle out of the window. When police went to the room, they ordered Shaver and a woman to crawl out from the room. As Shaver was leaving, officers say he made a slight movement toward his waistline, at which point Brailsford shot him five times.
KTAR reports: āNo weapons were recovered from Shaverās body, but officers found two pellet rifles in the hotel room, which they later determined were related to his pest control job, police said.ā
According to Shaverās widow, Laney Sweet, Shaver frequently traveled to Mesa as part of his job selling and servicing pest control equipment.
āAt some point, someone near the pool called the local police stating that they saw a man with a gun near the window of a 5th floor hotel room,ā Sweet wrote. āWhether Daniel was the one holding it or he allowed the other man to view his equipment and look into the scope, we donāt know. The man left the room at some point, for what we think was a trip to the gas station.ā
Sweet also wrote in that post that she had not been notified of her husbandās death, but had called every hospital and police station after she hadnāt heard back from him for two days ā until she finally reached the coronerās office.
